Description
Are you tired of guessing at the methods used to create all those great looking flies in your fly pattern books?
Printed in full color on top-quality paper, this book features over 3,000 color photographs and over 400,000 words describing and showing, step-by-step, hundreds of fly-tying techniques! Lesson and Schollmeyer have collaborated to produce this masterful volume which will be the standard fly-tying reference book for the entire trout-fishing world.
Through enormous effort on their part they bring to all who love flies and fly fishing a wonderful compendium of fly-tying knowledge. This book is now a collectors item that every fly tier should have in their library!
Here’s a listing of the chapters in this book:
Chapter 1 – The Anatomy of Selection of Fly-Tying Materials
Chapter 2 – Hook Preparation
Chapter 3 – Thread Handling
Chapter 4 – Mounting and Trimming Materials
Chapter 5 – Weighting Hooks
Chapter 6 – Underbodies
Chapter 7 – Wiggle Bodies, Tandem Hooks, and Weed Guards
Chapter 8 – Tails and Trailing Shucks
Chapter 9 – Ribbing and Gills
Chapter 10 – Bodies
Chapter 11 – Wingcases and Overbodies
Chapter 12 – Wings
Chapter 13 – Hackle
Chapter 14 – Legs
Chapter 15 – Heads, Collars, and Eyes
